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- Patent Title: Blockchain architecture conforming to general data protection regulation for management of personally identifiable information
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Application No.: US17268389Application Date: 2018-12-31
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Publication No.: US11979504B2Publication Date: 2024-05-07
- Inventor: Jin Hong Yang , Chul Soo Kim , Md Mehedi Hassan Onik , Nam Yong Lee
- Applicant: INJE UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
- Applicant Address: KR Gyeongsangnam-do
- Assignee: INJE UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-COOPERATION FOUNDATION
- Current Assignee: INJE UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-COOPERATION FOUNDATION
- Current Assignee Address: KR Gimhae-si
- Agency: CHRISTENSEN O'CONNOR JOHNSON KINDNESS PLLC
- Priority: KR 20180094513 2018.08.13 KR 20180132164 2018.10.31
- International Application: PCT/KR2018/016969 2018.12.31
- International Announcement: WO2020/036270A 2020.02.20
- Date entered country: 2021-02-12
- Main IPC: H04L9/32
- IPC: H04L9/32 ; G06F21/62 ; H04L9/00

Abstract:
Incidents involving confidentiality and vigilance against user privacy invasions raise doubts as to current third-party data collection procedures. Personally identifiable information (PII) is being abused for medical data breaches, identity theft, spam, phishing, cyber spying, etc. A great amount of data is flowing from users to companies for prediction and analysis of data-centric markets. It is thus difficult to track PII flow and genuineness. Blockchain technology, which is an “immutable” distributed ledger, can efficiently track PII exchange, storing, and distribution. In contrast, the EU general data protection regulation (GDPR) in progress claims “a right to forget” and a right “to delete”. However, the present specification proposes an off-chain blockchain architecture using both a local database and a distributed ledger to guarantee a trustable PII life cycle.
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